By Making It on 6 July, 2011
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, pushes for more innovative designs for the global food system
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By Making It on 28 March, 2010
In 2004, Bianca Jagger received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, for her “long-standing commitment and dedicated campaigning over a wide range of issues of human rights, social justice, and environmental protection”. She is the founder and chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation.
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The experience of participating at the Copenhagen [...]
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